Category Archives: land ethics

Snow Story

Posted on February 12, 2017 by susanoliver

I have to share a video (see below for YouTube link): please watch billy barr’s deeply moving short story of snow. It’s a Gothic tale of a man living in a cabin in the woods, in winter – all those … Continue reading →

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Ice Thoughts: 2,

Posted on November 9, 2016 by susanoliver

Study in Ice, Rock and Water. Southern Greenland seen from 36000 feet. Photo © Susan Oliver. Like the white ghost of a glacier the mists advance, riding over phalanxes of tamarack, sliding across bog meadows heavy with dew. A single silence … Continue reading →

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Seeing beyond the Sandhill Cranes: a trip from Eastern Wyoming into Nebraska.

Posted on June 5, 2016 by susanoliver

A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place . . . . The cranes stand, as it were, upon the sodden pages of their own history. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). On … Continue reading →

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Ice thoughts

Posted on May 29, 2016 by susanoliver

This post is concerned with visual aesthetics, so I’m not adding many words. The photos were taken over Greenland and Northern Canada. The spectacle of ice is impressive, freeze-framing a weird beauty. A language of ratios: the proportion of water … Continue reading →

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